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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-08-16 15:37:26 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-08-16 15:37:26 -0700 |
| commit | 2ff1cf12c9fe70e75e600404e6a4274b19d293ed (patch) | |
| tree | beafddac0a8098e3f07d2ec60e44a2a7d006e605 /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | 16b304f3404f8e0243d5ee2b70b68767b7b59b2b (diff) | |
| parent | 0f7dd1aa8f959216f1faa71513b9d3c1a9065e5a (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 8b61d103a8a..89a612e392e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3671,15 +3671,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(linkat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname, if ((flags & ~(AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW | AT_EMPTY_PATH)) != 0) return -EINVAL; /* - * To use null names we require CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH - * This ensures that not everyone will be able to create - * handlink using the passed filedescriptor. + * Using empty names is equivalent to using AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW + * on /proc/self/fd/<fd>. */ - if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH) { - if (!capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH)) - return -ENOENT; + if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH) how = LOOKUP_EMPTY; - } if (flags & AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW) how |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW; |